Yep, you read that headline right. Here’s a 10-minute video of a student explaning to his class why the physics in My little Pony is totally wrong. Yes, it has happened. “Physical Impossibilities in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” For our project, we had to find three scenes from any movie or TV show […]
The following video exhibits some of the amazing properties of certain non-Newtonian fluids, namely their large resistance to extensional flow. Check it out: [Via Neatorama]
In related news: The human featured in this video later died of malaria. [Via Neatorama]
It’s long been known that mammals have proportionally big brains in comparison to other creatures. Now new scanning technology suggests it may be linked to the sense of smell. A research project led by Professor Timothy Rowe of the University of Texas at Austin involved scanning the fossilised skulls of two of the earliest known […]
The most simple, easy to understand explanation on the Atom I’ve ever heard. [Via Buzzfeed]
In the following video, American astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson shares his thoughts about raising curious, scientifically minded kids. Check it out: [The Parent Show]
Last night I sat among a sell-out crowd of around 2,000 people who had each paid £25 (approx US$40) to see a group of people talk about science. Welcome to the world of Uncaged Monkeys. This was formally a live touring version of the BBC Radio 4 (and podcast) show Infinite Monkey Cage in which […]
Check out this mesmerizing video showing a series of pendulums slowly moving in and out of sync in an hypnotic pattern. [Via Kottke]
Ford is working with Ohio State University to attempt to make car tyres out of dandelions from the land of Borat. It’s not quite as crazy as it might seem. The work involves a specific species named Taraxacum kok-saghyz, better known as TKS or Russian Dandelion. (It’s native to the land that now makes up […]
When Einstein published his General Theory Of Relativity in 1916, there were a few minor technical issues with checking that his ideas about the effects of gravity upon spacetime were accuratel. Chief among them was that man was still four decades from getting an object into orbit. Now, though, NASA has announced the results of […]